The bridal canopy by Shmuel Yosef Agnon(
Book
)45
editions published
between
1931
and
2015
in
3
languages
and held by
1,283 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Account of the travels of a devout Jew in Galicia, in the early years of the 19th century, spiced with stories and stories
within stories

A guest for the night by Shmuel Yosef Agnon(
Book
)36
editions published
between
1939
and
2018
in
6
languages
and held by
1,030 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Hailed as one of Agnon's most significant works, A Guest for the Night depicts Jewish life in Eastern Europe after World War
I. A man journeys from Israel to his hometown in Europe, saddened to find so many friends taken by war, pogrom, or disease.
In this vanishing world of traditional values, he confronts the loss of faith and trust of a younger generation. This 1939
novel reveals Agnon's vision of his people's past, tragic present, and hope for the future

Only yesterday by Shmuel Yosef Agnon(
Book
)44
editions published
between
1945
and
2018
in
4
languages
and held by
1,018 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Seduced by Zionist slogans, young Isaac Kumer imagines the Land of Israel filled with the financial, social, and erotic opportunities
that were denied him, the son of an impoverished shopkeeper, in Poland. Once there, he cannot find the agricultural work he
anticipated. Instead Isaac happens upon house-painting jobs as he moves from secular, Zionist Jaffa, where the ideological
fervor and sexual freedom are alien to him, to ultra-orthodox, anti-Zionist Jerusalem. While some of his Zionist friends turn
capitalist, becoming successful merchants, his own life remains adrift and impoverished in a land torn between idealism and
practicality, a place that is at once homeland and diaspora. Eventually he marries a religious woman in Jerusalem, after his
worldly girlfriend in Jaffa rejects him

A simple story by Shmuel Yosef Agnon(
Book
)60
editions published
between
1931
and
2014
in
6
languages
and held by
984 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
When a young girl loses her parents and comes to live as a maid at the home of her wealthy relatives, she triggers a complex
series of events in the life of Hirshl Hurvitz, her young cousin, who falls in love with her

The parable and its lesson : a novella by Shmuel Yosef Agnon(
)7
editions published
between
2013
and
2014
in
English
and held by
964 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
S.Y. Agnon was the greatest Hebrew writer of the twentieth century, and the only Hebrew writer to receive the Nobel Prize
for literature. He devoted the last years of his life to writing a massive cycle of stories about Buczacz, the Galician town
(now in Ukraine) in which he grew up. Yet when these stories were collected and published three years after Agnon's death,
few took notice. Years passed before the brilliance and audacity of Agnon's late project could be appreciated. The Parable
and Its Lesson is one of the major stories from this work. Set shortly after the massa

Days of awe; being a treasury of traditions, legends and learned commentaries concerning Rosh ha-Shanah, Yom Kippur and the
days between, culled from three hundred volumes, ancient and new by Shmuel Yosef Agnon(
Book
)15
editions published
between
1948
and
1976
in
English
and held by
853 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Some years ago an Englishwoman, a relative of the then Archbishop of Canterbury, asked S.Y. Agon whether there exists in traditional
Judaism anything corresponding in its high drama and inntense power to the old Easter rituals. In response to this challenge
- and to his own unceasing quest for style and structure - Agon composed this literary tone poem on the Days of Awe. Taking
his materials from the vast storehouse of Hebrew literature of all ages, he ilustrated the procession of the High Holy Days
from the period of preparation for the Day of Judgment to the "Closing of the Gates" : profound religious mediation, moving
homily, travelers' reports, conversation and memoir, drama and pathos at once simple and majestic

Shira by Shmuel Yosef Agnon(
Book
)41
editions published
between
1971
and
2013
in
4
languages
and held by
726 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
"Manfred Herbst, a middle-aged professor at the Hebrew University, is bored. He is bored with his studies, with the petty
squabbles of his academic colleagues, and with his endlessly understanding wife, Henrietta. He spends his days--and often
his nights--prowling the streets and alleys of Jerusalem searching for Shira, the beguiling nurse he met at a hospital years
ago. Against the backdrop of 1930s Jerusalem--a world on the brink of war--Herbst wages his own war against the encroachment
of age as he plunges deeper into fantasies sparked by the free-spirited Shira. Shira, the last novel of Hebrew writer and
1966 Nobel Laureate S.Y. Agnon, was unfinished at the time of his death in 1970. Agnon wrote two very different endings for
this novel, both of which are included here, along with an afterword by Robert Alter."--Back cover

To this day by Shmuel Yosef Agnon(
Book
)5
editions published
between
2008
and
2009
in
English
and held by
382 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
"To This Day, Nobel prizewinner S.Y. Agnon's last novel (first published in Hebrew in 1952), is also his last to be translated
into English. On the surface it is a comically entertaining tale of a young writer - a Galician Jew who has lived in Palestine,
returns to Europe on the eve of World War I, and is now stranded in Berlin - who wanders from rented room to rented room in
a city with a severe wartime housing shortage. On a deeper level it is a profound commentary on exile, Zionism, divine providence,
human egoism, and other typically Agnonian concerns."--Jacket

S.Y. Agnon [and] Ivo Andrić by Shmuel Yosef Agnon(
Book
)2
editions published
in
1971
in
English
and held by
303 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
A tribute to the winners of the 1961 and 1966 Nobel Prizes for literature includes three of their works, plus presentation
addresses, acceptance speeches, and a survey of each author's life and works

Present at Sinai : the giving of the Law(
Book
)6
editions published
between
1994
and
1999
in
English
and held by
228 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
As Judah Goldin, in his lyrical introduction, suggests, "Agnon prefers to make the words of the pre-modern visible once more
... ; he reproduces what these ancient teachers said - without rehearsal, he lets them speak for themselves. Agnon loves the
flavor of these words ... The comments bring us into contact with imagery, concepts, parables, exhortations, and supplications
that exemplify Israel's universe of discourse, passions, and never-abandoned hopes

Two tales : Betrothed & Edo and Enam by Shmuel Yosef Agnon(
Book
)17
editions published
between
1966
and
2004
in
English
and held by
182 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Two tales of love. "Betrothed" portrays a teacher whose love for the sea leads him to the town of Jaffa. Though many pursue
him, Rechnitz eschews romantic love for his studies until he can no longer resist. "Edo and Enam" is set after World War II
in Jerusalem and considers how love evolves throughout the course of a marriage

Der Verstossene by Shmuel Yosef Agnon(
Book
)28
editions published
between
1923
and
2008
in
German
and held by
147 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide

Ve-hayah he-ʻakov le-mishor by Shmuel Yosef Agnon(
Book
)24
editions published
between
1911
and
2017
in
3
languages
and held by
139 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
S.Y. Agnon's first book-length, breakthrough work, originally published in Hebrew in 1912 and now available in English for
the first time in a fully annotated edition. This novella depicts an impossible moral dilemma faced by the tragic hero Menasheh
Chaim, in mid-19th century Buczacz (in today's western Ukraine). In the framework of a traditional Jewish folktale of old
world Eastern European Jewry, Agnon delivers a profoundly modern piece of literature, which benefits from the tension between
plot and genre

Nur wie ein Gast zur Nacht; Roman by Shmuel Yosef Agnon(
Book
)29
editions published
between
1964
and
1994
in
German
and held by
135 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide

In the heart of the seas by Shmuel Yosef Agnon(
Book
)20
editions published
between
1947
and
2004
in
3
languages
and held by
130 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
In the Heart of the Seas follows Hananiah, along with many rabbis and their wives, on a spiritual journey to Palestine. The
trip is a test of courage and mirrors the daily trials and experiences of modern existence, yet yields renewed faith

Agnon's Alef bet : poems by Shmuel Yosef Agnon(
Book
)2
editions published
in
1998
in
English
and held by
107 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Presents poetry based on the Hebrew alphabet with one poem for each letter